Sam Green
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Sam Green

Jan 1, 1966 - East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Sam Green (born in 1966; East Lansing) is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” including 32 Sounds (2022) with electronic musician JD Samson, A Thousand Thoughts (2018) in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, The Measure of All Things (2014), and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012), which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. All four works are performed live, with Green narrating and musicians performing the soundtrack. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS.

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Movie202332 SoundsSelf (Narrator)

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Movie2021Annea Lockwood: A Film About ListeningDirectorDirecting
Movie2002The Weather UndergroundDirectorDirecting
Movie1997The Rainbow Man/John 3:16DirectorDirecting
Movie2010Utopia in Four MovementsEditorEditing
Movie2010Utopia in Four MovementsProducerProduction
Movie2010Utopia in Four MovementsDirectorDirecting
Movie2011The Universal LanguageProducerProduction
Movie2011The Universal LanguageDirectorDirecting
Movie2011The Universal LanguageWriterWriting
Movie2011The Universal LanguageEditorEditing
Movie202332 SoundsDirectorDirecting
Movie2013Love Letter to the FogDirectorDirecting
Movie2017This is What the Future Looked LikeDirectorDirecting
Movie20207 SoundsDirectorDirecting
Movie2012The Love Song of R. Buckminster FullerDirectorDirecting
Movie2019Don’t Call Me Gay ZeligDirectorDirecting
Movie2011(Commissioned) Portrait of Las VegasDirectorDirecting
Movie1997The Rainbow Man/John 3:16WriterWriting
Movie2002The Weather UndergroundProducerProduction
Movie2009Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping MallProducerProduction
Movie2018A Thousand ThoughtsWriterWriting
Movie2008Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New OrleansEditorEditing
Movie2018A Thousand ThoughtsProducerProduction
Movie202332 SoundsEditorEditing
Movie2002The Weather UndergroundEditorEditing
Movie2019And with Him Came the WestWriterWriting
MovieN/ADaisyWriterWriting
Movie2018Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet CemeteryWriterWriting
Movie2009Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping MallDirectorDirecting
Movie2006Lot 63, Grave CDirectorDirecting
Movie2006Lot 63, Grave CEditorEditing
Movie2008Clear GlassesDirectorDirecting
Movie2004N Judah 5:30DirectorDirecting
Movie2013A Cinematic Study of Fog in San FranciscoDirectorDirecting
Movie2018A Thousand ThoughtsDirectorDirecting
Movie2018Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet CemeteryDirectorDirecting
Movie2000Pie Fight '69DirectorDirecting
Movie1997The Rainbow Man/John 3:16EditorEditing
Movie1997The Rainbow Man/John 3:16ProducerProduction
Movie2014The Measure of All ThingsDirectorDirecting
Movie1999The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous StainsDirectorDirecting
TV Show1996The Ultimate GuideEditorEditing